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Top Hat takes on textbook publishers with the launch of its content marketplace

June 14th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

What it launched back in 2012, Toronto-based Top Hat (or “Top Hat Monocle,” as it was still known then) offered a phone-based classroom response system but little else in terms of content for teachers to use in their [...]

HealthUnlocked support social network app goes global

June 14th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Long time UK-based health-focused social network HealthUnlocked has launched its first mobile app, aiming to boost access to its global community and feed more data into machine learning matching algorithms it began applying to the platform earlier this [...]

Element AI, a platform for companies to build AI solutions, raises $102M

June 14th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The race for artificial intelligence technology is on, and while tech giants like Google and Facebook snap up top talent to build out their own AI-powered products, a new startup has just raised a huge round of funding [...]

Heresy, founded by ex-Stack Overflow Europe MD, wants to help sales teams close with better data

June 14th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Heresy, a startup co-founded by Dimitar Stanimiroff, who was previously MD Europe at Stack Overflow, is a new sales tool designed to increase collaboration between sales team members, and help them make better data-driven decisions, collectively and individually, [...]

RE2 is making bomb-defusing robots as intuitive to control as your own hands

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Within a few minutes, I’ve got one hand grasped gingerly on the zipper. The other is holding the bag’s handle in place. I unzip it slowly, as if performing surgery. There’s none of the pressure of a real [...]

Microsoft joins the open source Cloud Foundry Foundation

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the non-profit behind the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project that’s currently in use by about half of the Fortune 500 companies. Microsoft is joining at the [...]

Advertising giants leave little room for adtech startups, and VCs are noticing

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Since the earliest days of the commercial web, there was a Faustian bargain struck between users and content publishers: Users got free access to online content in exchange for tolerating ads sold by the very same publishers delivering [...]

Accessibility and communication apps take FCC honors

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It may seem strange to see a headline with “FCC” in it that doesn’t concern net neutrality. But the Commission has a wide variety of responsibilities, among which is promoting and enabling tech that empowers people with disabilities [...]

Uber investors who called it “toxic” are satisfied by plans for change

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Freada and Mitch Kapor broke rank with typical investor silence in the face of scandals at their portfolio companies by publicly criticizing Uber in February, saying it was “toxic” and had “a culture plagued by disrespect, exclusionary cliques, [...]